quinta-feira, novembro 08, 2012
quarta-feira, novembro 07, 2012
A Chair for Disaster(-Related Boredom) Relief?
A Chair for Disaster(-Related Boredom) Relief?:
"Hey pops, the times are a-changing," suggests the sparse website. "Gone are the days when you could impress the friends with your old oak rocking-chair."
Enter the iRock: billed as the first-ever power-generating rocking chair, Zürich's Micasa Lab has updated the classic rocker with a tech twist: "As long as you rock, you charge you iPad or your iPhone."
The iRock is a product that explores how furniture can interact with technology and actually support the power for this technology. Movement is energy and to collect as much of this energy as possible is one of our future challenges. The laws of physics dictate how movement and friction constantly creates a vast amount of energy that in most cases is lost. iRock is a attempt to collect some of this energy and put it to real use. If you use iRock for 60 minutes you can recharge an iPad 3 to 35%.
The iRock is set at a "pleasant 37° rocking angle," allowing for a generous range of motion in generating power, which can be stored in a built-in battery for later use; I assume that the 25W speakers are also rock-powered.
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"Hey pops, the times are a-changing," suggests the sparse website. "Gone are the days when you could impress the friends with your old oak rocking-chair."
Enter the iRock: billed as the first-ever power-generating rocking chair, Zürich's Micasa Lab has updated the classic rocker with a tech twist: "As long as you rock, you charge you iPad or your iPhone."
We have added... a generator that transforms the movement into power. We have equipped the iRock with an iPad stand and a set of built-in speakers in the back rest. Over the last couple years, we have come to depend on an increasing amount of technical gadgets...
The iRock is a product that explores how furniture can interact with technology and actually support the power for this technology. Movement is energy and to collect as much of this energy as possible is one of our future challenges. The laws of physics dictate how movement and friction constantly creates a vast amount of energy that in most cases is lost. iRock is a attempt to collect some of this energy and put it to real use. If you use iRock for 60 minutes you can recharge an iPad 3 to 35%.
The iRock is set at a "pleasant 37° rocking angle," allowing for a generous range of motion in generating power, which can be stored in a built-in battery for later use; I assume that the 25W speakers are also rock-powered.
The main challenge was to get the generator working efficient. After trying out several designs we finally got it right and with a set of gears we're now able to get sufficient power to charge the built in battery that in it's turn are charging the iPad/iPhone. A concept we were working on for quite some time was the use of rubber bands and springs to increase the effect of the movement but we ended up with a solution using a winding mechanism that is geared up to run the generator.
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Getting It Right the First Time: Hands-On Review of the Ultimate Spatula
Getting It Right the First Time: Hands-On Review of the Ultimate Spatula:
Add this new acronym to your phrase book: GIR, or Get It Right. For their very first product, the designers at GIR have cooked up what they're calling the Ultimate Spatula, a single piece of molded silicone that's easy to hold, easy to clean and can handle food temperatures up to 460 degrees. You'd think by now someone would have been able to nail spatula design, but most spatulas available to consumers have a number of flaws. For example, a spatula made from multiple parts, including a head, handle and grip, means there's at least three extra joints for food gunk to get stuck in. Metal handles get too hot; wooden handles have to be hand washed. The GIR spatula, however, is made from a single piece of silicone molded over a nylon reinforcement that runs through the entire body, ending just 5cm from the tip, lending the blade enough structure to mix heavy, wet ingredients while retaining the flexibility to run it flush against the inside of bowls, dishes and cookware.
To see if the GIR spatula really was "the best spatula you've ever used," we road-tested it in a variety of dishes and temperatures. At first we were skeptical that the blade wasn't thin enough at the tip to scrape the bowl clean, but after using it in dense, wet cookie dough, hot, sticky oatmeal and a greased frying pan for flipping our eggs over easy, we found the tip was able to run between the food and the cooking equipment seamlessly. We bent the blade back with the palm of our hands, used it in an impromptu kitchen sword fight and ran it through the dishwasher, where we were sure the heat would mangle its pristine silicone body, but it emerged from our endurance test without a scratch. Consider us convinced.
GIR's Kickstarter goal has already been met two-and-a-half times over, but you can still donate $20 and preorder your Ultimate Spatula in one of ten colors.
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Add this new acronym to your phrase book: GIR, or Get It Right. For their very first product, the designers at GIR have cooked up what they're calling the Ultimate Spatula, a single piece of molded silicone that's easy to hold, easy to clean and can handle food temperatures up to 460 degrees. You'd think by now someone would have been able to nail spatula design, but most spatulas available to consumers have a number of flaws. For example, a spatula made from multiple parts, including a head, handle and grip, means there's at least three extra joints for food gunk to get stuck in. Metal handles get too hot; wooden handles have to be hand washed. The GIR spatula, however, is made from a single piece of silicone molded over a nylon reinforcement that runs through the entire body, ending just 5cm from the tip, lending the blade enough structure to mix heavy, wet ingredients while retaining the flexibility to run it flush against the inside of bowls, dishes and cookware.
To see if the GIR spatula really was "the best spatula you've ever used," we road-tested it in a variety of dishes and temperatures. At first we were skeptical that the blade wasn't thin enough at the tip to scrape the bowl clean, but after using it in dense, wet cookie dough, hot, sticky oatmeal and a greased frying pan for flipping our eggs over easy, we found the tip was able to run between the food and the cooking equipment seamlessly. We bent the blade back with the palm of our hands, used it in an impromptu kitchen sword fight and ran it through the dishwasher, where we were sure the heat would mangle its pristine silicone body, but it emerged from our endurance test without a scratch. Consider us convinced.
GIR's Kickstarter goal has already been met two-and-a-half times over, but you can still donate $20 and preorder your Ultimate Spatula in one of ten colors.
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Clever Cable Management Via 3D-Printed Shirt Button
Clever Cable Management Via 3D-Printed Shirt Button:
Wearable electronics still aren't ready for primetime, but until they are, here's a clever bridge product: Shapeways user Egant's Button 2.0, which features a precisely-dimensioned groove in one side, providing handy cable-clipping capability for your headphones.
It's totally one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-this head-smackers, but I have a feeling that as more and more of us get 3D printers, it won't matter....
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Wearable electronics still aren't ready for primetime, but until they are, here's a clever bridge product: Shapeways user Egant's Button 2.0, which features a precisely-dimensioned groove in one side, providing handy cable-clipping capability for your headphones.
It's totally one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-this head-smackers, but I have a feeling that as more and more of us get 3D printers, it won't matter....
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What's Going to Fly on Kickstarter These Days, and Why?
What's Going to Fly on Kickstarter These Days, and Why?:
The Kickstarter rendering ban may have washed out a generation of would-be products, and quite a few failures, but talented designers continue to get projects funded by working with what they've got.
Industrial-design-related Kickstarter pitches from one year ago will look very different from the ones we'll see a year in the future. By looking at the most recent Kickstarter product design successes in the low-target price range, it's not difficult to see what people are willing to get behind. Here's two of recent note:
San-Francisco-based designer Dan Goldstein's RE-PLY Chair handily attained his $10,000 goal while still at the halfway mark.
In our opinion, here are some of Goldstein's success points:
- He uses a readily-available material, cardboard.
- He states he's been working on the chair for six years, and backs that up with documentation on his pitch page, which contains photographs of his prototyping process.
- The chair works. The pitch video shows the product in use, driving home the notion that this is a real product.
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Dan Goldstein's cardboard molding method
Randy Ganacias with his 3D-printing set-up in the background
The Kickstarter rendering ban may have washed out a generation of would-be products, and quite a few failures, but talented designers continue to get projects funded by working with what they've got.
Industrial-design-related Kickstarter pitches from one year ago will look very different from the ones we'll see a year in the future. By looking at the most recent Kickstarter product design successes in the low-target price range, it's not difficult to see what people are willing to get behind. Here's two of recent note:
San-Francisco-based designer Dan Goldstein's RE-PLY Chair handily attained his $10,000 goal while still at the halfway mark.
In our opinion, here are some of Goldstein's success points:
- He uses a readily-available material, cardboard.
- He states he's been working on the chair for six years, and backs that up with documentation on his pitch page, which contains photographs of his prototyping process.
- The chair works. The pitch video shows the product in use, driving home the notion that this is a real product.
(more...)
terça-feira, novembro 06, 2012
Galáxia de iogurtes
Galáxia de iogurtes:
Ao invés de irem para o lixo, 1700 copinhos de iogurte foram reutilizados em nome da arte. Eles viraram a maravilhosa instalação luminosa abaixo.
Inspirada na Via Láctea, a obra reproduz toda a beleza e grandiosidade da nossa galáxia, dando ao visitante a sensação de viajar pelo espaço.
Batizada de “Milkywave”, ela foi criada pelo estúdio Aidia para a Beijing Design Week e ocupou uma antiga fábrica de bicicletas.
Celestial, não?
Washi tapes: fitas adesivas pra decorar a casa!
Washi tapes: fitas adesivas pra decorar a casa!:
Se você ainda não ouviu falar das washi tapes, guarde bem esse nome. Afinal, as fitas adesivas prometem ser a nova mania da decoração.
Fáceis de aplicar e supercoloridas, elas possuem diversos modelos e estampas, dando uma bossa a qualquer ambiente.
Veja algumas das aplicações:
Você pode colar as washi sobre móveis...
Vidros e porcelanas ...
Paredes...
E onde mais você quiser! Solte a imaginação e dê mais cor ao seu lar doce lar!
Se você ainda não ouviu falar das washi tapes, guarde bem esse nome. Afinal, as fitas adesivas prometem ser a nova mania da decoração.
Fáceis de aplicar e supercoloridas, elas possuem diversos modelos e estampas, dando uma bossa a qualquer ambiente.
Veja algumas das aplicações:
Você pode colar as washi sobre móveis...
Vidros e porcelanas ...
Paredes...
E onde mais você quiser! Solte a imaginação e dê mais cor ao seu lar doce lar!
Nós adoramos. E você?
O benefício do IPTU Verde
O benefício do IPTU Verde:
O benefício do IPTU Verde vem conquistando adeptos em várias cidades do país. Estados como São Paulo e Bahia concedem o benefício a proprietários de imóveis residenciais ou não, que adotem medidas sustentáveis ao utilizarem materiais como tijolo ecológico e telhado verde ou implantem ações como programa de separação de lixo domiciliar, plantio de árvores na calçada de casa, utilização de fontes de energia renováveis, como a solar, reuso da água, entre outros.
Sabemos que adotar medidas sustentáveis requer altos investimentos, pois os produtos ainda possuem o preço elevado, entretanto é importante lembrar que os custos tendem a se diluir com o tempo através da economia na conta de água e luz.
No Espírito Santo, a Câmara Municipal do município de Baixo Guandu propôs o projeto, em setembro de 2011. Por que não adotar esta medida em outros municípios do nosso Estado? Seguem abaixo alguns exemplos de incentivos fiscais do IPTU Verde na cidade de Guarulhos, SP:
- Arborização – imóveis com uma ou mais árvores tem desconto de até 2%, no valor anual do IPTU;
- Sistema de aquecimento hidráulico solar – 3% de desconto;
- Construções com materiais sustentáveis – 3% de desconto;
- Utilização de energia eólica – 5% de desconto;
- Acessibilidade – quem adaptar sua calçada para trânsito livre e seguro de pedestres e cadeirantes, mantendo de 1 a1,5 metro para circulação, terá desconto de até 5% no valor do IPTU;
- Sistema de reuso de água – 3% de desconto;
- Separação de resíduos sólidos (somente para condomínios horizontais ou verticais que comprovem a destinação para reciclagem) -5% desconto.
Um vídeo muito lindo...
Um vídeo muito lindo...:
Você sabia?
E então, você já está na lista de doadores de medula? Eu estou... =D
Você sabia?
As chances de encontrar uma medula óssea compatível para um paciente são raras - podem chegar a uma em cem mil! Por isso, ao se tornar um doador, você está ajudando a diminuir essa distância.
Qualquer pessoa com idade entre 18 e 55 anos e boa saúde poderá doar medula óssea. Ela é retirada do interior dos ossos da bacia, através de punções, e se recompõe em apenas 15 dias.
Todos os dados são organizados nos Registros de Doadores de Medula Óssea, cuja função é cadastrar pessoas dispostas a doar. Quando um paciente necessita de transplante, esse cadastro é consultado. Se for encontrado um doador compatível, ele será convidado a fazer a doação.
O processo de doação é muito simples. Será retirada por sua veia uma pequena quantidade de sangue (10 ml) e preenchida uma ficha com informações pessoais.
Fonte: GRAACC
E então, você já está na lista de doadores de medula? Eu estou... =D
Não custa nada e você pode salvar uma vida, e se tornar a pessoa mais importante do mundo pra alguém. Nós sempre podemos fazer o bem, sempre!
Lá também tem o endereço mais próximo da sua cidade, onde você pode se cadastrar.
Esse vídeo lindo eu vi no blog da Carol, e achei muito relevante compartilhar...
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